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Best Showpiece Poems

Below are the all-time best Showpiece poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of showpiece poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Simple and Pretty
The nose feels always sweet from the steams of the lower order
happiness and contentment fill the pages of their folders
still afford basic needs, though with...

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Categories: showpiece, class, community, life, people,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Unnoticed
(Dedication: For Dr Ram Mehta.)


Morning light
Spreads divine psalm --
Touch of zest


By this stone bench
Sleeping cat purrs --
Feline dreamscapes


That old man sits alone
Strange neighbour --
Thoughtful wanderings


Sadness...

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Categories: showpiece, appreciation,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Spring's Masterpiece
The artist, Spring, has painted many hours
On easel earth, creating lovely flowers

Strawberry blossoms giggle, ‘look at me’
As each is a masterpiece nominee

Look at me? But...

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Categories: showpiece, art, flower, spring,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Feeding Time
Sun sets, sky glows cerise.
Throw the nets, catch showpiece.
     Fish abound, birds take off
     All fly round,...

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Categories: showpiece, bird, fish, sunset,
Form: Verse
Diary of a House
Diary of a House

On a street called Curve
I rest on lovely land
Born when Elvis was young
Born with high hopes.

A cuddly couple came to see,
See me...

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Categories: showpiece, house,
Form: Personification



Premium Member Ukraine's Sunflower
 

The national flower of Ukraine-  yellow for joy,
in a beautiful landscape that war will destroy !

A symbol of optimism, solidarity and peace,
in my...

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Categories: showpiece, flower,
Form: Couplet
The Keeper of the Heads
The smell is a fine one;
The death of a traitor
is always sweet

I feel the pulse of the cheers
echo through the city
when the mighty fall
or the...

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Categories: showpiece, character, history, london,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Sparkles Buzz 2
Friends congregate
Party mood trickles;
Familiar laughter drowns


Once upon
A dream come true;
Foreign expectations


Invest shoppe
Moments meander;
Burst of high tide


Moaning and groaning
Kettle steam retorts;
Morning brew transits


So many words
Unsaid, unheard;
Uneasy...

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Categories: showpiece, change,
Form: Haiku
I Dont Give a Fig About the Brouhaha
I Dont Give A Fig About The Brouhaha...
of new year's eve,
yet yours truly does consider
at least one singular plum me facet by Jeeve
er...Robert (or Rabbie)...

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Categories: showpiece, assonance, august, farewell, january,
Form: Prose Poetry
Wakeup Black Man
Poet:  Ken Jordan 
Poem:  Wake Up Black Man 
Edited by:  Sparkle Jordan 
written:  May/2017


Black man, I see that you have 
lost...

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© Ken Jordan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: showpiece, black african american, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Passion
Passion
Enveloping the evolution of eternity as she radiates dark hues of red and violet, swaying through the hidden passageways of the soul.
She loves to travel,...

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Categories: showpiece, allusion, beauty, culture, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Piece of Nonsense
a showpiece
a speciality
        to 
           declaim:
visually clever
a retort...

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Categories: showpiece, nonsense, poetry,
Form: Verse
Old Books
One from the 1850s,
I bought it from a Scotsman thrifty,
on the windswept Isle of Skye,
its browning cover caught my eye,
old paper that’s weathered to tan,
each...

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Categories: showpiece, age, appreciation, books, history,
Form: Rhyme
Norwegian Beaches
Utterly cold waters for two southerners from Oslo.
They take our breath away when swimming. 
The land of the midnight sun and the gorgeous
Aurora lights are...

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Categories: showpiece, 11th grade, beach, holiday,
Form: Acrostic
Lipstick
A little bit of spice and everything nice,
Let's make sure there is no vice
Every time I roll the dice
I am being pushed sidewise,
I always hear...

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© Sky Waters  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: showpiece, women,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs